Our Graduates

Alumni share photos, stories and gratitude for friendships that started in dorms and elsewhere at Bentley. Send yours for a future issue. 1978 Kate Bartlet, Nancy Hyde, Carol Perkins Dodge and Cheryl Lamanna ’79 “Nancy and I have continued to meet… 1982 Cathy (Concannon) Parsloe, Anne Marie (Alpers) Martorana, Janet (Larsen) Logan and Anne (Jakul) Baynes On graduation day, four commuter Falcon friends snapped a picture that launched a tradition: same lineup,… 1989 Lisa (Svetin) Spaulding, Sara Niesobecki, Antoinette (Leonardi) Follett and Christine (Price) Roberts The sophomore roommates lost touch after moving out, but reconnected via Facebook and met up for the first… 1990 Aimee (Garrett) Dake and Mary Margaret (Sloan) Conners Dake and Conners met at new student orientation, chose each other as roommates and moved into Waverley Hall. They report: “We made great lifelong friends… 1991 Deborah Lang and Sandra (Sofoul) Parmentier At orientation, Lang and Parmentier learned they could choose roommates rather than wait for an assignment. Lang looked at the classmate standing next to her. ‘‘We… 1996 Brandi (Cousineau) Hau, Erica (Velardi) Donovan and Rebecca (Martineau) Power “Roommates for three years at Bentley and still best friends!” writes Hau.   2001 Vivian Cheng, Jillian (Lamoureux) Nowlan, Heather (Rysdyke) Cheney and Kate (McCullough) Gordon They met as first-year students in Elm and lived together for the remainder of their journey at Bentley. The… 2008 Joemarie Hernandez and Ashley (Lauzon) Caswell “Ashley and I met at an accepted student open house and instantly connected,” writes Hernandez, who remembers talking so much “we were told to hush by someone… 2010 Kristy (Hergrueter) Keenan and Liz (Farley) Harrington It wouldn’t be a big day without a Falcon friend: Here are the roommates at graduation day and Keenan’s rehearsal dinner in 2021. 2016 Julia Paradis and Deeksha Lal “Two random roommates on the Women’s Leadership Floor became lifelong friends!” writes Paradis. “We will always keep in touch, and have Bentley to thank for bringing us together… 2021 Rubeah Jung and Neha Khanna Jung calls Khanna “one of my first and bestest friends at Bentley” and notes that they stayed roommates after graduation. “So many memories in Slade and Kresge. Being close to the…

The Global Alumni Board (GAB), Bentley’s leadership group representing the broad and diverse alumni community around the world, welcomed two new members this year. Annemarie Frank ’88 and Mark Longo ’89 add representation from Florida and California,…

Victor Obetta MSBA ’22 likes hearing ‘no’ — because he believes it always has the power to become a ‘yes’ with hard work and a positive mindset. The philosophy helped him survive on the streets of Nigeria when he was experiencing homelessness and financial…

When Eduardo “Edu” Franco Saucedo ’22 received his Bentley diploma this May, he graduated with something he considers even more valuable than his degree in Finance and Liberal Studies: Global Perspectives: the ability “to live as my truly authentic self, fully…

Riya Bindra ’22 was one of about 18,000 applicants for an internship at The Estée Lauder Companies, home to iconic brands including Clinique, M.A.C. Cosmetics, Tom Ford and Smashbox. But the Finance major felt confident going into her interview, drawing upon…

Vinay Gokaldas ’10 is founder and CEO of Pasiv Financial, an artificial intelligence-powered investing app that allows people to build and manage a stock portfolio using simple chat commands. Find out why he calls NFTs (non-fungible tokens) the next big…